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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
- My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
- In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)
- We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
- Discretion is not the better part of biography.
- Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
- All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
- In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
- Dame Edna Everage (1934 - ), In a television interview with Joan Rivers
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Mother Night
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